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• \The question under Strickland is … whether [counsel] conducted an adequate background investigation or reasonably decided to end the background investigation when he did.\ (emphasis added)
• “Double deference is doubly difficult for a petitioner to overcome, and it will be a rare case in which an ineffective assistance of counsel claim that was denied on the merits in state court is found to merit relief in a federal habeas proceeding.”

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